Subject: Off Line Reader

From: Paul Hafford <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:08:26 -0500

Hi, 

I am using a dos based system and have just acquainted myself with
pine. Could someone please tell me what are available for packet programs
that will download my news group messages without erasing my incomming
mail? Also, what is available for off line pine-mail readers and where
can they be found?

Thanks,

"It's not easy being green."  kermit the frog

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From: Eric Tse <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 02:23:02 GMT

> mail? Also, what is available for off line pine-mail readers and where

  One of the excellent off-line e-mail and news readers is Yarn. It has a
DOS version and it uses the SOUP packet format. You only need a shell
account (since you're using Pine, I suspect you have one such account) on
which to run "uqwk", which packs e-mails and news in the SOUP format.

  For more information about Yarn, consult the news group :

alt.usenet.offline-reader

  or just search for it on the WWW.

  Hope this helps.

Eric Tse
[email-masked]
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~jyetse/